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Exit Through The Gift Shop

  • Exit Through The Gift Shop

Gene Siskel Film Center

164 N State Street
Chicago IL 60601
312-846-2800
  • Fri Sep 10 6:15 pm, 8 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Sat Sep 11 3 pm, 4:45 pm, 6:30 pm, 8:15 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Sun Sep 12 3 pm, 6:15 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Mon Sep 13 8 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Tue Sep 14 6 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Wed Sep 15 6:15 pm, 8 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
  • Thu Sep 16 8:15 pm
    Exit Through The Gift Shop at Gene Siskel Film Center

    Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

    Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State Street, Chicago, IL
$10

Exit Through The Gift Shop contains a lot of amazing footage of graffiti artists at work, and of their finished installations, most of which were removed or wiped away days later. Just as a permanent record of a remarkable artistic movement, Exit Through The Gift Shop is valuable. But there’s more going on here. In also telling the story of amateur videographer Thierry Guetta’s obsessive behavior, street-art legend Banksy delivers a surprisingly wry, analytical essay-film that starts out being about the DIY impulse, then becomes about what makes an artist great, and not a well-meaning wannabe. Exit features plenty of twists and turns—many involving the clandestine, lawbreaking art projects themselves—and it’s probably better if viewers don’t know the whole arc of the story going in.

Updated 08/31/2010

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